Formulating Petitions To Request a Secretarial Election

  1. Law
  2. CFR 25
  3. Indians
  4. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior
  5. Tribal Government
  6. Secretarial Election Procedures
  7. Formulating Petitions To Request a Secretarial Election

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Section
81.49

What is the purpose of this subpart?

Section
81.50

Who must follow these requirements?

Section
81.51

How do tribal members circulate a petition to adopt or amend the tribe's governing document?

Section
81.52

Who may initiate a petition?

Section
81.53

Who may sign a petition?

Section
81.54

Who is authorized to submit a petition to the Secretary?

Section
81.55

How is the petition formatted and signed?

Section
81.56

Do petitions have a minimum or maximum number of pages?

Section
81.57

How do I determine how many signatures are needed for a petition to be valid?

Section
81.58

How long do tribal members have to gather the signatures?

Section
81.59

How does the spokesperson file a petition?

Section
81.60

How does the Local Bureau Official process the petition?

Section
81.61

How can signatures to the petition be challenged?

Section
81.62

How is the petition validated?

Section
81.63

May the same petition be used for more than one Secretarial election?